Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia
Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia
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东南亚口述历史及片段
DOI:
10.1057/9781137311672_1
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发表时间:
2013
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A. Thomson
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作者:
K. S. Loh;E. Koh;A. Thomson
This book offers a view from Southeast Asia, where oral history is embryonic and state led but is also being socially contested and redefined. The book began as a conference in Singapore in 2010, organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the Singapore Heritage Society. ISEAS had hosted a similar event 20 years ago, which resulted in the publication Oral History in Southeast Asia: Theory and Method (1998). 1 The interim years have witnessed significant changes in Southeast Asia that are transforming the practice of oral history. The book will investigate oral history in Southeast Asia along two intersecting lines of inquiry. First, it explores how, as elsewhere in the world, interdisciplinary approaches are connecting oral history to studies of memory, oral tradition, and heritage. Second, the book pays attention to context and explores the relationship between oral history and the political, economic, and social circumstances in which the narrator speaks. In bringing together these two approaches, this volume considers oral history as “fragments”—those individual or group accounts of the past that do not fit in with the mainstream or dominant narrative. The term, originating from subaltern/postcolonial studies, refers to perspectives of marginal groups that conflict with the dominant view. Here, it is used more broadly to include different sorts of relationships between oral history and dominant narratives